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Promote a standby after primary failure: Promotion succeeds while writes still route to the old primary · case 05

The failover promote operation is admitted even though promotion succeeds while writes still route to the old primary.

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Case contract

Return a Boolean admission decision for promote a standby after primary failure. The record r must satisfy all of: r['primary_fenced'] is True; r['rpo_bound'][0]-r['rpo_bound'][1] <= r['rpo_bound'][2]; r['standby_writable'] is True; r['promotion_epoch'][0] > r['promotion_epoch'][1]; r['routing_switched'][0] == r['routing_switched'][1]. Extra tracing fields are ignored; validation does not mutate the record.

Why this case matters

A deterministic local contract for reliability. Each negative fixture violates exactly one invariant. No transport timing, persistence, cryptographic verification, or full protocol implementation is claimed.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
Promotion succeeds while writes still route to the old primarytruefalseFailed

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